Lachlan

Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 09:02 UTC

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 07:25 UTC

Lollin hard at "nobody in my real life wants to talk bepenised lesbians with me!"

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

Oh damn, Sword Of Doom?

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

They're gonna lock up the old videos like George Lucas with the original trilogy.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 06:41 UTC

Lowering my toddler daughter into an Ikea display like I'm one of those helicopters dropping Gipsy Danger into the South China Sea.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:20 UTC

My wife recommended Drag Race to one of her friends and they got four episodes deep before they realised there wasn't going to be any actual racing involved.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

Wanna see if Biden drops the f bomb.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:06 UTC

I thought Margot Robbie's accent in Wolf of Wall Street was mortifying, but apparently people were still surprised to discover that she's not an American.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

I bought a Gibson SG in 2010 or so and promptly broke one of the tuning pegs. I never got around to fixing it, so one of the nicest guitars I've ever owned has just been sitting there for more than a decade, awaiting repairs.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 11:37 UTC

Favourite trope of the day: two people separated by an incredible distance solve a problem together using an unreliable means of communication. Bonus points for time travel, or one of the parties not being what they seem.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 05:39 UTC

I was just telling my son that I was going to have my eyelids removed for convenience.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

I still think about the housemate I had who, in the weeks leading up to her wedding, directed a production of a musical she had written about how she wished she had chosen some other guy instead of her fiance.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:21 UTC

He's talking about "someone" taking over Infowars and allowing him to continue as an employee, which I imagine will last as long as it takes for someone to realise what having Alex Jones as an employee actually entails.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 08:09 UTC

As a kid I was hypnotised by the scene in which Atreyu attempts to talk the thing in the cave out of eating him. I must have written at least a half dozen takes on the "human encounters a sentient apex predator" setup. Something so compelling about someone reasoning their way out of being eaten.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

Why on earth did I set myself a reminder for an Aaron Eckhart thriller called "the Bricklayer"? *Checks the cast and sees Tim Blake Nelson.* Oh, there we go.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

The Nightingale is the best movie I never want to watch again. Genuinely harrowing. I guess I didn't pick up on that comparison between process and characterisation in Stopmotion. I feel there could have been more effective ways to explore those themes.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

Aisling Franciosi was so damn good in the Nightingale, which is really the only reason I watched this one. I think what it was missing was any real sense of escalation. I had the same problem with Saint Maud. There's no sense that the character's fate was anything but inevitable.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 11:34 UTC

Oh definitely. He was chewing the scenery like he was auditioning for Hannah Montana.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 10:48 UTC

I watched the last one without having any previous exposure to Twilight and everyone lost their minds when Michael Sheen got his head pulled off.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 10:44 UTC

I don't think he could have gotten this more wrong on purpose. Every choice he has made in writing this query seems to be the exact opposite of the one he should have made, and that's before you get to the fact that his book sounds utterly miserable.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 03:50 UTC

If my wife had a driver's licence I feel she would have a completely different perspective on how close we are to the collapse of society.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 06:05 UTC

That SF masterworks line had some bangers.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:51 UTC

What's their deal, did their indie band not work out, or are they trying to raise money to start a craft brewery?

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 03:31 UTC

One of the drafts of the Blade Runner script included the "animal ownership as status symbol" plotline. Not sure it could have been convincingly realised.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 22:57 UTC

They're pretty great. My toddler was losing her mind so bad we had to turn the TV off.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

Yeah, my son had to have a Thomas the Tank Engine with him at all times. With her it's something different every time, the more inconvenient to me, the better.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:49 UTC

The only surprise left in my life is which object my toddler daughter is going to demand she be allowed to fall asleep clutching in her tiny little hands. A fridge magnet? A doorstop? A box of pencils? I never know until she's finally ready to collapse from exhaustion at around 10pm each night.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 08:19 UTC

Great cover, too.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

I get press releases from metal bands who are trying to reach a radio host with the same name as me.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

"Why can't I sleep?" my wife asks as she holds a screen two inches from her nose and furiously refreshes her K-pop feed.

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Lachlan @lachlanwatt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 10:38 UTC

They're just piling them on top of each other, aren't they?

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